These days Cyber attacks have increased many folds. No one is safe on internet. Hackers, Cybererrorists or whatever you call them! Are growing and even doing the best to make malicious networks worldwide. Nowadays online threats have increased drastically. I remember, last time’s survey I read that it was found that Cyber attacks have nearly doubled in the last year. Each day user faces new viruses and Trojans in his Computic life. Each time while using Net-banking or accessing social accounts on networks such as Facebook, Twitter they get into a dilemma that whether they are safe or not. Even while purchasing stuff online they get worried about the credit card details as we fear some hacker might steal the information. Cyber attacks can be of various types such as stealing account information, credit card information, hacking computers, email accounts, etc. These attacks make us think that we are not really safe on
internet. So, is there a way to protect our self online?

Cyber Security

After listening about so many attacks, you might be thinking that only possible solution to it is that we should stop using our credit card online and should close all are accounts , but is running from these things a solution? No! If you are a daily reader of our blog, then may remember that CERT issued high alert for increasing Cyber Attacks in April. So, to help you, our Editor came up with an article “How safe a ‘link’ is?” in which he told how to check a link properly, then later on a guest came up with a post in which he gave Tips for Staying Safe when Buying Online. So, today after such a long time I managed to come online and was free enough so giving you tips to be safe on Internet! So here we go!

• Never give your full name, address, or phone number to person claiming you have won a lottery, don’t ever reply to such emails they are all fraud. You cannot win anything for free so use your brain and dont reply to such emails, they are just a part of online scam.
• Use genuine software, a Windows-cracked version of software are themselves a kind of virus so don’t use cracked software. Go for genuine, stop piracy!
• Install a good anti virus, firewall and anti-spyware so that your computer is protected from most common virus and Trojans. You can use All in one protection software which provide all these stuff. Example of such software is Kaspersky total protection or Bitdefender total protection. You can also download Site Advisor like small apps, which are free and would work well for sure in helping you to check-know if a link is safe to visit or not?
• Also keep your anti virus, other software and Windows updated as new viruses and threats are surfacing every day and these updates provide essential protection against these threats.
• Change your account password regularly, keep changing your password every month and so.
• Try not to use social services such as Facebook and Twitter and your email accounts in cybercafes, though most of you do this. So, if you even do never intentionally or by-mistake do ‘Remember me’ while providing password and after loging out/moving from cyber don’t forget to delete cookies and history from your browser (as hackers can even hack your account via cookie stealing)
• Most of the computers in cybercafe are infected with viruses and other malwares, so avoid using your accounts on those computers.
• Don’t enter your account details in front of anyone else they might see your password.
• Last, but not the least always use your brain before doing anything and try to remain
  updated about various new threats and malwares by reading online journals and magazines.

Just by following these simple rules and advices, you can remain safe on internet and do you what you want!

[Tips by Roger Rae, who managed the online marketing for Fortepromo Promotional products, a Minnesota-based promotional stress balls company, for over three years.]

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This summer seems to more boring than the month of March was, being honest I have nothing to these days not even holiday home work. I just keep on wasting my time on Internet by doing something or the other. I have made a list of  top three free Web applications that are pretty cool, different from other applications and I am sure they won’t let anyone to get bore too.

List of Applications

Me, and the Key

It’s not any place, but a nice game even better than PacMan, which has a lot of levels in it. The game is all based on a key. You will get many hurdles in the game and somehow to win you have to find the key and enter in to next level. The fast you will get the key the fast you will enter into next level. Try it!

Falling sand

It’s one of the best Web applications I have ever seen (yes you can call it a game). In this app sand of different colors flow down just like it’s raining and just like Microsoft Paint, we can easily draw anything on it and best thing is sand will continue to flow, which will give it a damn cool effect. Nice app for artists.

Virtual Girlfriend

Girls are good entertainer in many ways, best thing to not get bore is to make a girlfriend, but I’m sure if you had girlfriend you wouldn’t be here reading this. Yes it’s true that it’s hard for geeks to get girlfriend, but no tension I have come across a flash (.SWF) application is uploaded in which a girl and a search box is present. What you will type in the search box, the girl will be. Isn’t it cool?

I have also written a detailed article about it if you wish, you can check it here. Though I won’t recommend any one below 13 years should try it.

These are the three applications that are helping me out in not getting bore. If you know any cool Web application do share with us, I will love to add them to my list.

Which is better Google Search or Bing Search? Some people might say Google and some might Bing? But, which one is better actually you can’t tell exactly, but yes there are be some differences between them that a normal user couldn’t point out.

Mashable, worlds most popular socialized technology blog, whose search was earlier powered by Google Custom Search, is now powered by Bing. Don’t know why they moved from Google to Bing?

Mashable did not release any reports or information why it shifted their search engine from Google to Bing. Is it because it’s better than Google? Or there is any other reason

there is a possibility that Bing has offered some sort of deal to Mashable (sponsorship) to shift from Google to Bing or maybe Adsense earning wasn’t good enough from Google Custom Search.

Who knows? Still the answer of question, which is better can’t be found out.

Keep reading further regarding this hot debate. Until drop down what to you think that why did they move from Google to Bing (may we get the answer)?

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To provide best service to its users Firefox keeps on releasing new versions with improved security and enhanced features. It also has an open source addons community so that developers can easily design and code addons according to their needs and use and merge them within browser.

Now Firefox will also be available on iPhone, yeah all Firefox fans would be amazed to use there favorite brand on iPhones too. But due to some technical difficulties it will not be available as browser on iPhone, but this application known as ‘Firefox Home’ will let you sync your Firefox desktop client to take your Browser session with you.

This application was developed by Mozilla Labs project called Weave Sync for iPhone would take the place of Firefox on iPhone. It has some great features such as it provides browsing history, bookmarks and tabs from users recent desktop browser session.

Sources say that this application could be in market by next month. Opera also joined the list of Web browsers on the application store a few months ago and it seems Firefox Home is expected to give a tough time to Opera App, since the Web pages would open up in Safari itself, which is the default browser for the iPhone.

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(via Devils Workshop)

Google, an internet giant, which is nearly in every field related to Web, has finally taken control of AdMob; AdMob is a mobile advertising platform. The acquisition deals was announced by Google six months before only, but it was delayed because of Federal Trade Commission (FTC). But now FTC has approved the deal so there is no hurdle in Google’s path to utilise AdMob.

Google can easily utilize it against Apple to gain more popularity and market share as iPhone also released iAds, which is a direct competitor to Google and AdMob. Seems Google is all ready to beat them as it is planning to quickly appoint a new integration team and integrate AdMob technology to their advertising services like Adsense, AdWords to gain an upper edge in mobile advertising.

Just as Google dominates Web advertising through AdSense and AdWords it has similar plans to dominate mobile advertising in coming two-three years, it will be clear who will be the leader in mobile advertising Google or Apple?

 What do you think about it?

Did you know Microsoft has a download manager for Web browsers? I am sure not even 10% of the readers know it. As its name says, it enables you to download files like songs, zip files and multimedia, etc., in a more secure and better way just by using your Web browser, but tell me WHY would anyone need it? Though mostly all browsers come with an inbuilt download manager.

Download Manager

This is just like an ordinary download manager. According to Microsoft it is much fast and secure as compared to other download software (they think that they don’t care of security? Bad!) Though I can’t say how it is more secure because it does not have any extra features for security (it does not even support HTTPS extension to download something.. So how can one say it is secure huh?), moreover it does not support Google Chrome, Opera and Safari browsers. It is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer.

In my opinion there are much better download managers available on Internet, I didn’t expect Microsoft to release such a basic and simple manager to download. If you still want to give it a try, then you can download it officially from here.

Hello! Remember an article written by our editor in which he listed top three software using which one can be anonymous on Internet easily? I was just checking my Analtics and found that post was one of the most read post. So it seems everyone wants to anonymous by hiding their IP, but their bad luck that those software are available free for only limited period of time and I know that some guys can’t afford them (even I wasn’t when I was new on Internet, because I didn’t have credit card, Paypal accounts and all).

So, I thought why not to give away Easy Hide IP for free worth $29.95, which is one of the most used software among them. This software could help you out in many ways like the Editor said:

The usage of social networks and blogs have become too much and nothing is now private. It’s OK to share what you like, but tell me if we continue doing like this, then what would be the difference between a virtual life and a real life?

Easy Hide IP can easily help you in being anonymous, bypassing any form of censorship or internet traffic blocking imposed on you by your ISP, your company, or third parties. So interested in getting it’s free copy?

Participate [How]

Like other contest, this contest is too simple too..

• Tweet about this contest via Twitter (can use any app to do so).
• Become a Fan of Extreme Trix on Facebook (have a look at sidebar/subsribe our newsletter)
• After doing all that drop down your comment with the tweet link (it would be good if you use your Twitter avatar while commenting. To use it just enter your Twitter name/profile and click on find button above the comment box.)
• Two winners would be selected via Random.org!

First winner will be selected once this post gets 10 Retweets and second will be anounced after completing 20 Retweets. So Tweet now!

Last time I told you about what updates Twitter did last month? And also about the new Retweet page that they introduced (to only some fortunate users), which is very helpful, especially for all who are using Twitter for business. These days Twitter is up to something different.

They are testing three new features and this time in the search page. They have added three new features called ‘Save this search’, ‘Top Tweet’  and added a search box in sidebar too with up and down uptions.

Save this search

This feature is quite helpful for all who keeps on searching on Twitter for something or another as it gives them an option to save what they have searched and can view it again later on!

Top Tweet

This is not of any use as I think. It just counts the number of Retweets a tweet gets and if crosses 90 or 100 it becomes a top tweet.

Search box

I think yes! It was a needed feature that was missing from Twitter and did a good job by adding it.

What do you think about these features? Drop it down!

From a long time Orkut was not in news. The last time when I saw an update from Orkut was when they released their new version. The reason behind not doing any new update could that most of the users migrated to Facebook because of its cool features (of course which Orkut does not have and what they have is all copied too). Today while reading a scrap I came across an update from Orkut (at last!).

As you can see in the image that now Orkut has started displaying online status on images only. Well, honestly this is the first update I have seen that Orkut has not copied from Facebook or Twitter. My opinion it’s a great update and will help its users to identify easily that who’s online, busy, or idle.

What do you say? Comment on it!

Fed up of online frauds, scams and sites containing viruses? Look NO further McAfee has launched its site advisor software. This soft gives a rating and display an icon next before the site’s link which tells about safety details of site or in the other meaning it lets us know that how secure a page (web-page) is.

A green icon means site is safe to visit whereas red icon means site is harmful or contains potentially harmful applications. This software protects you from online frauds, browser exploits and phishing attacks. McAfee released two versions of this great utility – one is freeware with limited features on the other hand other is paid one (paid one i.e Site Advisor Plus have much more features).

For normal users I will suggest you to definitely download a copy it as nowadays nothing is safe on Web even CERT issued high alert for increasing Cyberattacks. Download a free version as for a try, it will protect you from most of the common scams and attacks and also you would get to know that how does it work, so if you will find it useful, then buy the Plus edition.

After all safety is the best policy

so it’s a must have software for all Internet users …………..

Link: Download

Almost all of us have heard about Paypal, right? It is the online money transfer system. Paypal has 153 million accounts worldwide, it’s the biggest online money transfer system. It’s definitely the best  medium to send money online, but the thing which I hate most is logging in again and again to check all the transaction details.

Being a proffesional writer,  to check my balance that how much money did I get I have to login again and again on their website, which I, even many users too find time-consuming. So what’s the solution for this problem?

Putler ya you read it right Putler! While reading some articles on Paypal details I came to know about this small application. It is an Adobe air based application which shows your Paypal balance on your desktop, keep details of all your transactions and much more….. All you have to do is to download it from here.

After downloading it, just provide your Paypal details to the application (you might find it a bit difficult cause for that you need to provide your Paypal API credentials, but don’t worry there’s a tutorial to do so), don’t worry it is not a fraud application, then after successful configuration it will notify you whenever your balance changes.

This application certain advantages which are listed below:

• You don’t have to login on PayPal website to check balance and other details
• Auto update of balance no timeouts.

All you should have to use this wonderful application no matter whether you have Paypal business or premier account! , I suggest you to give a try to this great application for sure.

A new facebook scam has started on facebook. It’s a video spam named Candid Camera prank! [HQ] has been circulating. Actually this is not a video and it links to an application which will take you to download a file named vlcplayer.exe (a software to play VIDEO & MP3 files) and running this will post this message on your friends’ wall. So it will keep spreading as the users keep on clicking on the scam link.

Here’s the message it displays on Facebook wall: Name, This is without doubt the sexiest video ever!. The length is shown to be 3:17.

When you click on the link, you will be taken to http://apps.facebook.com/nadq_sdas/, then it will ask to continue and says that your video player is out of date. It then brings to another page to download a file. Don’t click these links when you see these types on posts on your wall on your Friends’ wall. Simply remove these posts from your walls.

I personally tried this so that I can know how it worked, thankfully while downloading the file my anti virus deleted that file because it contained a virus. So now I know it contains virus…So guys stop clicking on such scam links and don’t download such files though precaution is the best policy.

If you have already clicked on the application and allowed access to that application you can go to application settings under your facebook settings and can remove access of that application.

Do share your comments about this dangerous scam….

Credits: TechNnot

Again a small, but good news for Facebook lovers. A man in Britain was united with his long-lost father after 37 years with the help of Facebook. Andy Spiers-Corbett, 39, who had lost contact with his father Graham Corbett when his parents separated, typed his father’s name in search box of Facebook and instantly picked out his photo from a long list of Graham Corbetts.

Seems even oldies are too addicted to Facebook.

Sometimes it become hard to visit some sites  or remain anonymous on the Internet. The usage of social networks and  blogs have become too much and nothing is now private. It’s OK to share what you like, but tell me if we continue doing like this, then what would be the difference between a virtual life and a real life? I am going to share with you the three top most IP hiding software.  These software are used to hide your IP from outside world thereby protecting your real identity up to a certain extent.

• Easy hide IP: It is really a good software to hide your IP address, it comes with many features such as location hiding, privacy protection etc. You can try this software for three days. Download it from here.
• Hide my IP: This software has many unique features such as auto IP changing, Anonymous Emails and much more. You can download it from here.
• Ultra Surf: I think it is too common software. This software has one advantage its user interface is simple, and all other features are similar to above software. You can download it from here.

In short all three perform same task of hiding IP, I tried all three of them and personally and feel Hide my IP is best software among these three in terms of cost, IP hiding and ease of usage. Have ever use any other software to hide your IP?

No doubt that Facebook is addictive social networking site, but yeah it also helps to get a great business and money; especially for bloggers. Though for an addicted user working at office it becomes hard to even open it and update his status because in most of the offices, social networks are blocked by firewalls and proxies even don’t work there. So you too are one of addicted facebook users working at office where it is blocked? Not able to surf it? Don’t worry! I have found a great plug-in for Microsoft Outlook (I think every office has its copy) using which you can easily access it, FBLook (Facebook + Outlook).

Now you can update your status message on facebook, can see your friends’ status & see the number of new requests without having to open Facebook in any of the browser or application. FbLook merges with your outlook and provide all above-mentioned things within outlook itself.

Features:

• Update your Facebook status directly from Outlook.
• Set your status to the name of the song you’re playing in itunes
• See your friend statuses.
• See notifications of new Friend Requests, Messages, Invites, Pokes, etc..

Configure [How]:

FB Look is supported by all windows versions with outlook 2003 SP3, 2007 SP2. It’s not supported by outlook express. Download it from here. After you have installed it, just open your Outlook add-ons click on login in Facebook option after that several messages will be displayed to guide you through the process. There are four steps, but they need to be followed only once.

It took me about four minutes to download and install it and I must say for people like me who use Outlook it is a great utility. Share your views about it.

Link: FB Look.